Ewan McGregor Quotes
Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
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I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.
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Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.
